Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Activity tagged “scraping”

Bookmarks

MySpace cyber-bullying conviction tentatively dismissed - Los Angeles Times

The cyber-bullying aspect of this case is utterly un-interesting to me. However, the ruling contains this tidbit: Judge Wu finds that violating a site's terms of service cannot be considered a crime. Big news for anyone doing data scraping!

(law, scraping, terms-of-service, web)

templatemaker - Google Code

Adrian's “reverse template engine:” take a series of files and construct a template that could have been used to generate those pages. Obviously extremely useful for data scraping.

(code, friends, python, scraping)